ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,067, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Graphic Packaging International LLC (Atlanta).
"Method and system for conveying articles" was invented by Timothy W. Hendricks (Acworth, Ga.), Pete Karst (Canton, Ga.) and Kevin T. May (Kennesaw, Ga.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of conveying articles. The method can comprise moving a plurality of articles in a downstream direction on one or more conveyors, each article of the plurality of articles having an orientation. The method further can comprise moving a plurality of lugs in the machine direction along at least a portion of the one or more conveyors for guiding the articles as ...